Lord Frederick Cavendish

Lord Frederick Cavendish (30 November 1836-6 May 1882) was Chief Secretary for Ireland on 6 May 1882, succeeding William Edward Forster and preceding George Trevelyan. He was murdered by dissident IRB members hours after his arrival in Dublin in the 1882 Phoenix Park murders.

Biography
Frederick Cavendish was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England in 1836, the second son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire and the brother of Chief Secretary of Ireland Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire. He served as the Liberal Party MP for West Riding of Yorkshire North from 1865 to 1882, and he served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1880 to 1882, when he was sent to Ireland to serve as Chief Secretary. He took his oath at Dublin Castle on 6 May 1882, but, that same afternoon, he and Under-Secretary Thomas Henry Burke were knifed to death by dissident IRB members ("the Invincibles") in Phoenix Park. Cavendish was an unintended target, as Burke was the terrorists' target; the assassins did not recognize Cavendish when they murdered him.